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Portrait of Georges Simenon Photo: Keystone Pictures USA / TT (1973)

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Simenon, Georges

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian author. He was born to Catholic middle-class parents in Liège. Georges Simenon is considered among the foremost and most popular French-speaking authors of the 20th century. He was extremely prolific. His exact output is unknown, but estimates suggest that he wrote between 200 and 300 novels, over a thousand short stories as well as innumerable ...

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Portrait of Anne Mette Hancock Photo: Thomas Lekfeldt (2019) / Ritzau Scanpix / TT

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Hancock, Anne Mette

After having worked as a journalist and press & publicity manager, Danish Anne Mette Hancock made her international breakthrough as an author with her first crime novel, The Corpse Flower (2017, Ligblomsten). She was born and grew up in the small town of Gråsten in Jylland, Denmark, just north of the border with Germany, but when she was 19 she moved to the USA where she studied History and ...

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